Le Petit-Châtelet et le Petit-Pont en 1717. (Composition retrospective). Actuellement rue du Petit-Pont, D.7910, Philippe Benoist, between 1875 and 1882

Author(s): hoffbauer, fédor (neuss, 13–10–1839 - paris, 28–10–1922), designer production date: between 1875 and 1882 dating in century: 19th century type(s) of object(s): graphic arts, drawing name(s): drawing dimensions - artwork: height: 20. 1cm width: 31. 3cm dimensions - museum master key: height: 40cm width: 50cm marks, inscriptions, hallmarks: signature of the performer - lower right, in watercolor: "t hoffbauer" monogram = number - bottom right, in watercolor: "f. H. " stamp - bottom left: "carnavalet". Iconographic description: the petit-pont and the petit-châtelet, rue des etuves, quai du marché-neuf (1717). Bridge on wooden stilts covered with medieval houses, croissant house, bras d'or house, women's bathhouses, half-timbered facade, balconies. King pepin town hall. Fortress, corbelled turrets. Seine, boats, boatmen, washerwomen, banks. Historical commentary: cf. Hoffbauer and a. Bonnardot, paris through the ages, paris, 1875-1882, 11th issue, texts by ch. Jourdain, lithogarphy by p. Benoist, plate i, reed. Sand and tchou, paris, 1982, t. 2, p. 219-285. The quai du marché-neuf was completed in 1566, removing 2 of the 5 arches of the bridge. The houses on the bridge were built symmetrically in 1552, then 1603 and restored in 1659. Card07911, gives a view of the bridge after the fire of april 17, 1718. Other later views bear witness to the gradual dismantling of the annexes of the hôtel-dieu, the development of the place du châtelet, town planning under prefect haussmann: card05829 (1830) and card05835 (1880). Themes / subjects / places represented: urban landscape mode of acquisition: purchase date of acquisition: 22–04–1894 institution: carnavalet museum, history of paris inventory number: d. 7910. Date: between 1875 and 1882.